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Purdue University, BS 1992; The University of Michigan Law School, JD 1997

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Though primarily based out of the firm‚Äôs Washington DC office, the team at Mayer Brown is able to leverage the expertise of its lawyers based in the global financial centres of New York, London and Hong Kong to provide a comprehensive regulatory offering to domestic and international banks, broker-dealers, as well as the full array of consumer finance participants. David Beam has significant payments expertise and was the lead regulatory partner in the firm‚Äôs restructuring of American Express‚Äô prepaid business. Beam also provides ongoing regulatory compliance advice to numerous fintech companies offering payment services. Steven Kaplan handles standalone consumer finance advisory work, as well as transactional-driven regulatory work; he is acting for Goldman Sachs on the regulatory aspects associated with its acquisition of Genesis Capital. Phillip Schulman‚Äôs broad-ranging consumer finance compliance practice includes particular expertise within the real estate finance and mortgage banking sectors. Other recommended partners include Ori Lev, for CFPB-related work; Jerome Roche, for broker-dealer matters; and Thomas Delaney, whose work encompasses compliance and agency enforcement/investigations work across the panoply of financial services matters, including OFAC-related issues.

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AVELLUM acted as the Ukrainian legal counsel to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine in connection with two syndicated EUR-denominated facilities arranged by Deutsche Bank in December 2018 and March 2019 for the total amount equivalent to approximately USD1 billion.

AVELLUM acted as the Ukrainian legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (‚ÄúEBRD ‚ÄĚ) and the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (" BSTDB ") in connection with senior secured loans in the total amount of up to EUR36.3 million to Rengy Bioenergo LLC (‚ÄúLoans ‚ÄĚ).

The document entitled "Statement of Changes to Immigration Rules" which was released by the House of Commons on the 7th March 2019, outlined and advised us on a number of changes that will come into place that will affect the Tier 1 Investor Visa amongst other visa programmes and schemes. The latest article on our website discusses both of these new UK business visa routes. Our immigration lawyers London are already up to date on all of the required information for both the NEW Tier 1 Start-Up Visa and the NEW Tier 1 Innovator Visa .

According to the new document from the House of Commons on March 7th 2019 titled ‚ÄúStatement of Changes to Immigration Rules‚ÄĚ, a number of changes will come into place that affecting the Tier 1 UK Investor Visa programme amongst other visa programmes and schemes. Read about them in our latest¬† article .¬†

There is no doubt that the UK has to date benefited immensely from visa-free EU¬†immigration to the extent that visa conditions and caps on non-EU migrant have undermined and overshadowed the ability of this group to play a prominent role in British industry and commerce and in its expanding and overburdened NHS service. It is the view of¬† Gulbenkian Andonian ¬†however, that after¬† Brexit, there should be a noticeable change in those skilled non-EU migrants contributing to British society in a meaningful way.¬†

From 1 January 2021 everyone except for British and Irish citizens will be subject to immigration control in the UK. ¬† Gulbenkian Andonian solicitors has already published an article on this topic of post- Brexit immigration and has discussed the case of EU nationals and family members after Brexit, you can find that article here as one of many in our blog .

A medical practice cannot advertise using the term ‚ÄúPraxisklinik‚ÄĚ (‚Äúclinic‚ÄĚ in English) if it does not provide overnight accommodation. That was the view upheld by the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) in a ruling from October 17, 2018 (Az.: I ZR 58/18).